Margaret Atwood Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• War is what happens when language fails.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Empowering, Language

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Robber Bride: Includes the short story 'I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth'”, p.46, Hachette UK

• Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.

  Margaret Atwood

  Philosophy, Sight, Medicine

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.256, Anchor

• The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own, through their no doubt lavish spending, upon those who stand below them on the economic ladder. Notice that the metaphor is not that of a gushing waterfall but of a leaking tap: even the most optimistic endorsers of this concept do not picture very much real flow, as their language reveals" pg. 102.

  Margaret Atwood

  Real, Optimistic, People

• A language is everything you do.

  Margaret Atwood

  Language

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle”, Treasure Press

• poetry is where the language is renewed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Poetry, Language, Poetry Is

• Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.

  Margaret Atwood

  Past, Technology, Way

  Source: www.slate.com

• Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

  Margaret Atwood

  Race, Differences, Language

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “The Edible Woman”, New Canadian Library

• As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

  Margaret Atwood

  Past, Next, Helping

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